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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:15:01 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:28:36PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> I have migrated a linux box to freebsd.  I would like to add all the
> user accounts from linux to bsd but the format of /etc/passwd vs
> master.password is problematic. 
> 
> what I would like to try is pull out the user id from my old passwd
> file and somehow batchmode add them to my new system.  I can use awk
> to get the old ids.  But is there utility that will accept a list of
> user ids to add to master.password?

pw(8) is your friend.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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